Polarimetric analysis of multi-temporal RADARSAT-2 SAR images for wheat monitoring and mapping

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3840-3858

  Xu, Juan ^a,b   Li, Zhen ^a   Tian, Bangsen ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Chen, Quan ^a   Fu, Sitao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MAPPING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; GROWING REGIONS; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRIC IMAGERY; POLARIMETRIC SAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VOLUME SCATTERING;

RADAR IMAGING;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GROWTH; MAPPING; MONITORING; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WHEAT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84901666058     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.919679     Document Type: Article

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